NCAA Football 10 Demo Now Available, Post Your Impressions Here

[dukerock12]

Quote: Originally Posted by HuskyDog

I'm very interested in hearing why the PS3 graphics in the demo are noticably worse compared to NCAA 09. I even downloaded the 09 demo to compare with the final game from last year to see if the demo from last year had poor graphics compared to the final game. The graphics from the 09 demo appear to be identical with the 09 final release. Yes, I am playing on an HD TV with an HDMI connection. It appears that for some reason, the PS3 has taken a major graphical hit in terms of player models, jersey textures and especially helmet appearance quality with regard to lighting / reflections. The OU helmet looks like a throwback from the PS2. There are some gameplay improvements, but with the very bad graphics, I will not pay $60 for a few gameplay tweaks and a chance to build a high school team online. EA needs to clarify why the graphical quality is so poor. If these are the graphics that will be part of the final release, they should be embarrassed.

this is how the demo was for me last year on the ps3 but i noticed a huge difference in the final build.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Strummer101er

Weird glitch at the end of the game: 4th quarter. I'm trailing OU 21-20. I complete a pass and advance to the 10-yard line with two seconds left and call a timeout so I can set up for a field goal. Before I can call the play, Oklahoma calls three timeouts in a row. I've heard about icing the kicker, but this is like nuclear winter. What gives?

Yes, this happened to me too. As well as the bad snap glitch where QB is in shotgun and ball flies overhead ruled incomplete. Don't mind the bad snap randomly (maybe 1-3% of snaps) happening, but rule it a fumble and let it play out.

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Quote: Originally Posted by HuskyDog

I'm very interested in hearing why the PS3 graphics in the demo are noticably worse compared to NCAA 09. I even downloaded the 09 demo to compare with the final game from last year to see if the demo from last year had poor graphics compared to the final game. The graphics from the 09 demo appear to be identical with the 09 final release. Yes, I am playing on an HD TV with an HDMI connection. It appears that for some reason, the PS3 has taken a major graphical hit in terms of player models, jersey textures and especially helmet appearance quality with regard to lighting / reflections. The OU helmet looks like a throwback from the PS2. There are some gameplay improvements, but with the very bad graphics, I will not pay $60 for a few gameplay tweaks and a chance to build a high school team online. EA needs to clarify why the graphical quality is so poor. If these are the graphics that will be part of the final release, they should be embarrassed.

Yup noticed this too. I hope it has to do with it being the demo, but like you said, the NCAA 09 demo looked better graphically. The colors seemed washed out, the helmets don't glimmer. It definitely looked something out of PS2.

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Quote: Originally Posted by mudtiger

My first impression of the demo is that it was decent for a demo, that's it. I just can't get any real good read on the game as a whole with 2 min qtrs. I really liked 09's demo and ended up very frustrated with the actual game though. If the sliders actually work, and I mean really work where there is a huge difference betwen a 0 and 99 slider, I think I would buy the game. Unlike in previous years I'm not going to buy the game on day 1 to find out.

Sorry mudtiger, but the sliders are broken AGAIN this year. See: http://www.operationsports.com/forum...ent-plans.html They are working on a patch... but like you said, the sliders need to be much more effective than last years pre and post-patch.

[BCJMU99]

Quote: Originally Posted by steelers1

Played again as Florida and tried to cheese by scrambling around and stuff, and you could definitely still do it, but I wasn't that successful with it (I never really play that way so that's probably why I suck at it, but if the demo is any indication, it will still happen online a lot). I'm worried about the goal line stuff. OU had it on my 1 yard line, and ran 3 times and I stuffed it each time. Their HB was running full steam ahead on an outside run and was instantly stopped at the goal line by 1 UF defender. There was no momentum. Same thing happened with a run up the gut, and then they did the QB sneak, and Bradford just dove immediately for a loss. He dove automatically, which would be cool, but he never even had a chance of gaining yards. It looked like to make the sneak less effective, they maybe made it useless.

I agree with you completely, happened to me with Tebow on a 4th and 1 and he just drove to the ground and I got a turnover on downs. It looks like they are trying to make the animation look like a QB putting his head down into a pile but there wasn't a pile for him to put his head down into...

I also wasn't able to run around with Tebow...I do this sometimes with fast QBs while playing vs. CPU (not really an online player) and I wasn't able to at all..if you trying roam around too much you will def get pressure on you.

[JerseySuave4]

Quote: Originally Posted by Strummer101er

Weird glitch at the end of the game: 4th quarter. I'm trailing OU 21-20. I complete a pass and advance to the 10-yard line with two seconds left and call a timeout so I can set up for a field goal. Before I can call the play, Oklahoma calls three timeouts in a row. I've heard about icing the kicker, but this is like nuclear winter. What gives?

i forgot about that one, i got that as well. I was trailing OU, i had the ball centered at the 4 yard line for a GW FG, i ran the clock down to 2, called timeout, then before i could do anything OU called 3 straight timeouts, isn't that a penalty now? Or can you call all your timeouts in a row like that?

It was annoying though, but i still nailed an easy fg to win.

[Lupe_Tabasco]

looks like the ps3 version the qb's are still throwing knuckle balls(no spin on the ball at all). Am i the only one that is bothered by this?

[Skyboxer]

Ok my biggest issues are
1:Just doesn't feel exciting at all. Maybe that's just me. No life what so ever IMO.
2: I feel as though I'm guiding my players rather than controlling them. Very sluggish and animation oriented.
3: lots of times the "get hit and throw badly" timing is off. The throw goes way off course and then the hit happens. Looks dumb when it happens.
Worse one I've seen was on a screen pass. Defender a good 2 yards away when I released the ball to the back in left flat. Ball goes straight ahead right into a D players arms......then the hit on the QB.

Not really to impressed overall...